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Plagiarized work recieve gov't money.

This is part of a series of provocative critiques by Stanley Fish of the discourse of digital humanities. Essentially he calls for a revised view of digital humanities that takes into account literary critical concerns with reception, ambiguity, and so on. Well work reading.

Factsheet on fair use of copyrighted works.

Essentially, authors who published their works on the Kindle may have assumed that Digital Rights Management (DRM) was automatically enabled for their work. The option for DRM or no DRM has always been there, however, it seems Amazon has made it easier for Digital Text Platform publishers to choose one or the other.

This website could also be helpful to several people while working on their projects. It discusses copyright laws, multimedia laws, website rules, etc.

describes the way people can watch movies legally and for free on the internet. always wondered how this worked...

Lovers of offbeat music and hard-core rap would probably never use the names "Weird Al Yankovic" and "2 Live Crew" in the same sentence. Yet, they have something very important in common. The law protects their use of other people's musical works. The reason is that courts consider both 2 Live Crew's rap combined with pop music riffs and Weird Al's combination of everything... to be parodies, which are protected under fair use doctrine. from LegalZoom.com

A collective artwork run. The work is charming, poignant, as is created and maintained by amateurs...

This article talks about the history of instant messaging and how it works. It states that "IMing" is used as a faster way to emailing.

This article talks about investing in the web (i.e. investing in Twitter or Facebook). Borthwick, who works for Betaworks has invested in Twitter and has his company invested in 21 other social media networks.

This website discusses some recent viral video advertisements on the internet. It shows why they work, and why viral video advertising was (in some cases) their only option to advertise the product.

Millions of PS3 owners experienced problems with the network. Problems included not being able to log onto the system, playing online games, playing games that had online trophies. Apparently, the PS3 Slims were not affected.

There are so many things that we don't know about how social networking sites work, about the investors, the number of members, and the value of the sites. There is even a country that has banned Facebook

This pdf file just gives the basic run down of how Myspace works and the dangers of social networking. It also gives ways to educate and communicate with others about the site.

AIG's internal workings and legal issues that relate

Internet art piece by Johnathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. Scroll down and click on "Interactive Version" to see it. What is it? Well, as stated on their "Mission" page: "We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale. Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved."

Steve Albini is an infamous record producer, perhaps most famous for his work with Nirvana on their album "in Utero". This article outlines the methods record companies use to seduce rock bands, essentially making them slaves of the industry. Albini represents the many ways in which the music industry is changing to meet customer and artist needs, considering the recent explosion of file sharing.

Coca-Cola plans to create ad involving social media for their big super bowl ad. Does this mean that the vast majority of different audience members understand and know what social media is and how it works?

This article just gives insight to different ways of making a video or video storytelling more appealing. I thought this would be interesting since we are working on our trailors.